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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter adds stickers for photos and lets you search them like hashtags — Twitter will begin letting you add virtual stickers to the photos you post, the company said today. Hundreds are available at launch, including the standard Unicode emoji and some original work from Twitter.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Lyft hires M&A banker Qatalyst Partners, possibly seeking a sale or new funding — Lyft was last valued at $5.5 billion by investors including GM — Ride-hailing startup Lyft Inc. has hired Qatalyst Partners LP, the boutique investment bank best known for helping tech companies find a buyer …
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| Dissent Doe / The Daily Dot: |
655K patient records from three healthcare breaches are up for sale on the dark web after hacking victims refused extortion demands — For 655,000 patients who were enjoying a quiet Sunday, life may become a lot more complicated. Their personal, medical, and insurance information is up for sale in a forum on the dark net.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google launches Cast for Education to let students cast their screens to the classroom projector, debuts quizzes feature for Forms, and opens up VR Expeditions — It's no secret that Google's Chromebooks have seen the most success in the classroom, and have quickly become the de facto education computer … | Google Research Blog: |
Google announces Project Bloks, a new open hardware platform to make coding physical for kids, still in development — Posted by Steve Vranakis and Jayme Goldstein, Executive Creative Director and Project Lead, Google Creative Lab — At Google, we're passionate about empowering children to create and explore with technology.
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| Matt Day / The Seattle Times: |
Microsoft reaches $10K settlement with a small business over an unplanned Windows 10 update — With about a month left for many PC users to upgrade to Windows 10 at no charge, Microsoft is being criticized for its aggressive — some say too aggressive — campaign to get people to install the new operating system.
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Microsoft is ending Xbox Fitness, citing content costs, with full shutdown on June 30, 2017 — Xbox One owners are going to have to find another tool for working out in front of the TV: today Microsoft announced plans to shut down its Xbox Fitness service.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches human-curated Featured Events, currently for iOS users, in 10 US cities — 550 million people use Facebook Events each month, with 60% of connections to events happening serendipitously in the News Feed. But Facebook is giving hardcore extroverts seeking more parties …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
HPE CEO Meg Whitman announces several organizational changes, including the departure of CTO Martin Fink — CEO Meg Whitman announces more organizational changes less than a year after HP spun off its Enterprise business. — Less than a year after Hewlett Packard spun off HP Enterprise …
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High Point Enterprise, PCWorld, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Fortune and The Register
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook rolls out Slideshow movie-maker feature on iOS to compete with Google Photos and Apple's Memories feature coming in iOS 10 — Most people can't shoot compelling videos, and static photos are boring. That's why the tech giants are all pushing their own versions of automatic movie makers based on your media.
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CNET, The Verge, The Next Web, iPhone in Canada Blog and Engadget
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: dozens of new brands get Dash buttons this week; companies pay $15 for each branded button sold and 15% of each product sale, atop normal commission — Detergent, household-products makers join expansion as they try to stay close to Amazon, but consumer demand for gadgets has been cool
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Fortune, TechnoBuffalo, ZDNet, Consumerist, Tech Times, TechHive, TechSpot, InvestorPlace, Gizmodo, USA Today, CNET, Digital Trends and NFC World+. Tweets: @jasonhiner
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Amazon unveils Inspire, an online education service for teachers, offering free lesson plans, teaching modules, and other digital resources — Just ahead of the back-to-school season, Amazon is making a major foray into the education technology market for primary and secondary schools …
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TechCrunch, TIME and GeekWire
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